This textbook on cataract surgery contains multiple colour pictures and excellent drawings. It is designed for ophthalmology registrars in training and for general ophthalmologists updating their knowledge.

The book is comprehensive in its scope. It is clearly written and up to date. It is an exceedingly practical book and an excellent training manual for our registrars. It is also a useful book for other disciplines and allied health professionals to dip into to understand the complexity of modern cataract surgery. It would be particularly useful for anaesthetists and anaesthetic registrars and there is a good section on local anaesthetic technique.

This has been an easy book to review. Put simply, it should be owned by every registrar in ophthalmology in Australia and New Zealand and they should use this as their core reference for learning cataract surgery. The authors have comprehensively mastered their brief and are to be applauded for it.